Publications
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- Hao Chen, Renzheng Zhang, Scott S. Howard. “DAPS++: Rethinking Diffusion Inverse Problems with Decoupled Posterior Annealing.” European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026.
arXiv · PDF · ECCV poster - Julian Najera, Hao Chen, Scott Howard, Meenal Datta. “Using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy to Probe the Metabolic Peritumor Microenvironment and Beyond.” Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, 1–16, 2026.
Springer · DOI - Hao Chen, Scott S. Howard. “Improving Richardson–Lucy Deconvolution with Diffusion Priors for Fluorescence Microscopy.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.25924, 2026.
arXiv · PDF - Julian Najera*, Hao Chen*, Bianca Batista, Frank Ketchum, Aktar Ali, Pinar Zorlutuna, Scott Howard, Meenal Datta. “Instant fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy reveals mechano-metabolic reprogramming of stromal cells in breast peritumor microenvironment.” iScience, 29(6), 115931, 2026. (*Equal contribution)
DOI · PubMed · PMC · bioRxiv - Hao Chen, Julian Najera, Dagmawit Geresu, Meenal Datta, Cody Smith, Scott Howard. “Zero-Shot Denoising for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy with Intensity-Guided Learning.” Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, pp. 4719–4728, 2025.
arXiv · PDF · IEEE Xplore · Slides - Hao Chen, Julian Najera, Alice Burchett, Dagmawit Geresu, Meenal Datta, Scott Howard. “Two-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy of autofluorescence under cellular differentiation.” Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XXV (SPIE Photonics West), Proc. SPIE 13324, pp. 99–103, 2025.
DOI - Hao Chen, Julian Najera, Dagmawit Geresu, Meenal Datta, Scott Howard. “Experimental investigation of noise characterization in real-time, multiphoton fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy.” Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XXV (SPIE Photonics West), Proc. SPIE 13324, pp. 24–29, 2025.